AI’s public image has worsened due to multiple high-visibility setbacks, including boos at commencement speeches, damage to a literary prize, additional layoffs, and local political disputes tied to data centers. A new book about AI’s impact on truth faced criticism for including fake quotes generated by AI. A forthcoming Vatican encyclical will focus on safeguarding the human person amid artificial intelligence. Polling from Stanford and UC Berkeley found fewer than half of Americans support charging ahead with AI innovation. This shift threatens big brands associated with AI adoption, as illustrated by online backlash over a Nike post that appeared to use an AI-like phrasing pattern, prompting hundreds of responses.
"It was a bad week for AI's public image. The concept was booed on mention at several commencement speeches, tarnished a literary prize, drove more layoffs, and tangled local politics in a number of data-center squabbles."
"A hyped new book about AI's impact on "truth" was dragged for including fake quotes made up by AI. Pope Leo XIV's forthcoming encyclical will concern "safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence," Vatican News reported."
"I don't think I've ever seen something intensify this quickly," mused one of the researchers behind a recent poll from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, finding less than half of Americans think the country should charge ahead with AI innovation."
"In a fairly innocuous post on X touting its association with Italian tennis champion Jannik Sinner, Nike wrote that the tennis superstar "can do it all," adding, "This isn't just history - it's his story in the making." Referring to the "it isn't y, it's z" construction, a trope of AI writing, an X user groused: "they let a GPT AI-ism through on the main Nike page?? I thought marketing teams caught this stuff by now.""
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